This course aims to equip you with relevant and high quality career guidance practitioner skills, such as interviewing and developing career learning programmes, as well as designing and using labour market information to provide effective insight and advice. Working in public, private, voluntary and community settings, career guidance practitioners assist a range of adults and young people to make decisions about their education, training, future jobs and careers. You’ll gain insights into and training in a variety of interview models, covering the specialist skills and techniques needed for working with clients, including networking, group work, presentation theories and techniques. We will help you learn to evaluate career-related and labour market information, such as producing actual employer and job studies that can be used as live products. A range of assessments include: reflection exercise to gauge the impact of beliefs and values on practice; reports to discuss the impact of policies, such as equality and diversity, on practice; essays where students reflect on their practice, and the links between theory and practice; placement portfolios; interview and group work assessments; and the production of career-related and labour market information research and products. Successful completion of the course should provide you with skills to find employment as a guidance practitioner in the statutory services, careers guidance within further education and higher education institutions, adult guidance partnerships, charitable organisations, community-based agencies and the various opportunities becoming more available in the voluntary and private sector. Students will also achieve PgDip award in this course.